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Dallas Attorney Secures Quick Settlement After Winning $18M Verdict in Talc Asbestos Case

After winning an $18 million verdict in an unusual asbestos case, a Dallas attorney hammered out a settlement with cosmetic talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels recently&mdasha move that kept the defendant from facing the potential of even greater damages from a California state jury.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Finch v. Am. Premier Underwriters, Inc., PICS Case No. 16-1276 (Pa. Super. Sept. 30, 2016) (memorandum) Olson, J. (12 pages).

By | October 21, 2016
Trial court erred in transferring venue of appellant's suit against former employers pursuant to the Federal Employers' Liability Act that alleged toxic exposure that led to bladder cancer because the facts showed that trial in appellant's chosen forum would represent only an inconvenience to the defense. Vacated and remanded.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Bettwy v. Am. Premier Underwriters, Inc., PICS Case No. 16-1247 (Pa. Super. Oct. 3, 2016) (memorandum) Olson, J. (15 pages).

By | October 14, 2016
The trial court abused its discretion in ordering a transfer of venue based on a finding of an oppressive and vexatious burden on defendant and defendant's proposed witnesses based solely on the distance from their places of residence to the trial venue. Order of the trial court vacated.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Rocha v. Olive Garden, PICS Case No. 16-1200 (C.P. Monroe Aug. 22, 2016) Zulick, J. (8 pages).

By | October 11, 2016
Four years after a patron became ill with a bacterial food-borne illness, the original defendants sought to join several additional restaurants to the lawsuit that was filed against them by the patron and his wife. Individually the added restaurants rejected the joinder. In the present case, Papa Santos Pizza argued that the joinder was not proper, since it was barred as to sole liability by the statute of limitations, and original defendants through their own pleadings failed to allege grounds on which it could be found liable. The court agreed and struck Papa Santos from the joinder along with all cross-claims against it. Defendant Papa Santos' motion for judgment on the pleadings was thereby granted.
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National Law Journal

U.S. Judge Rejects Bid to Toss Case Linking Talc, Cancer

A federal judge has remanded a case in which a California woman is scheduled to go to trial on Sept. 26 alleging Johnson & Johnson's baby powder caused her to get ovarian cancer.
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New York Law Journal

NYC Receives Last of More Than $100M of Recovery for Asbestos Removal

New York City has received the final payment owed it in recovering money it spent to strip asbestos from city buildings.
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Corporate Counsel

Suit Seeks to Hold Pharma Companies Liable for Public Health Costs of Opioid Addiction

A Long Island County has filed a lawsuit against drug manufacturers alleging deceptive marketing of opioid painkillers, in a move resembling litigation filed by states against tobacco manufacturers in the 1990s that led to a master settlement with cigarette makers.
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New York Law Journal

Suit Seeks to Hold Pharma Companies Liable for Public Health Costs of Opioid Addiction

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Connecticut Law Tribune

Event Spotlights Limits on Gun Torts in Mass Shootings

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The American Lawyer

Lifetime Achiever: Sheila Birnbaum, Quinn Emanuel

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